White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that Elon Musk's various business ventures are not undergoing a national security review.
Evercore ISI fundamental research analyst Mark Mahaney and EVannex CEO Matt Pressman join 'The Claman Countdown' to react to Musk addressing his potential Twitter deal on Tesla's Q3 earnings call.is mulling a national security review of Elon Musk's business ventures, including SpaceX's Starlink funding in Ukraine and his plans to acquire Twitter, are not true, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday.
"Those reportings are not true, so we'll leave that there," Jean-Pierre told reporters. "The national security review – that is not true." Bloomberg reported last week that U.S. officials are concerned about the SpaceX CEO's behavior after he threatened to pull the plug on StarlinkFILE PHOTO: SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 13, 2019.
Ukrainian officials have credited Starlink with helping forces hold off Russia's invasion. Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, tweeted earlier this month that Musk "helped us survive the most critical moments of war" and said Ukraine "will find a solution to keep #Starlink working."
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